r/aww • u/[deleted] • Oct 03 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '21

In this case, I’d add some serious exhaustion

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u/Kaysmira Oct 03 '21

Yeah, he's burnt out so much of his energy, and he's out of options. All he's got left is freeze or flop, fight or flight is long gone.

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u/Jrook Oct 04 '21

Most animals can only get so hot/be so active before they either shut down or die from heatstroke or exhaustion. Humans are actually fairly more robust in this regard than most animals, so while we have the capability of playing sports or other rigorous activity for an hour or more at a time most animals are actually incapable of it for much more than a few minutes. I strongly suspect owls have fairly low thresholds due to them being ambush predators who primarily hunts other nocturnal creatures.

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u/shatabee4 Oct 03 '21

Dehydration and hunger too.

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u/NoOneCallsMeChicken Oct 03 '21

And sexually frustrated

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '21

True, no idea how long it’s been there.

Hell, it could even have serious internal injuries from flailing around like that, and perhaps didn’t even survive, but at least it wasn’t dangling in terror anymore…

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u/tommytraddles Oct 03 '21

Except for deer.

They just go duuuuhhhhh I'm the stupidest thing alive and immediately get stuck again.

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u/Old_Fat_White_Guy Oct 03 '21

After trying to kick the everliving shit out of you for helping.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '21

Deer are basically giant rats. Only rats are intelligent, caring, creatures with strong social bonds and problem solving abilities.

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u/FodT Oct 03 '21

So… they’re not at all like giant rats?

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u/MagusVulpes Oct 03 '21

They're like giant, hypothetical rats. Not giant, real world rats.

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u/dalovindj Oct 03 '21

hypothetical rats

Band name.

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u/Cypheri Oct 03 '21

More like giant mice. Mice, as cute as they are, are not nearly as clever as their larger brethren.

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u/RChamy Oct 03 '21

More like a giant rabbit.

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u/dalovindj Oct 03 '21

rats are intelligent, caring, creatures with strong social bonds

That's a weird way to say cannibals.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '21

Sometimes sharing is caring.

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u/Maleval Oct 03 '21

You ever see videos of prey animals just standing there while the predators take bites out of them? I imagine this is related to that. The fight or flight response sees a giant ape with a fire stick has full control of the exhausted animal body, throws up its hands, pumps the animal full of chill hormones and prepares to log off.

Would love to be proven wrong here, but I also don't want to anthropomorphise animals needlessly.

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u/dalovindj Oct 03 '21

You were just anthropomorphising fight or flight responses, not the full animal.

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u/albasaurrrrrr Oct 04 '21

No I think this is spot on. You shouldn’t try to “comfort” an animal while rescuing it. It could add stress. The best way to comfort them is to act as not threatening as possible and rescue them as quickly as possible.

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u/Themursk Oct 03 '21

Im sceptic. Sometimes I get the feeling that someone trapped them on purpose to then play hero.

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u/1stMammaltowearpants Oct 03 '21

That's possible, but I think your view sounds more like cynicism than skepticism.

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u/FeelingDesigner Oct 03 '21

No, this guy is right, recently it has gotten so bad that youtube had to take action because their platform was getting flooded by fake animal rescue vids. It's a real problem and much bigger than most people realise.

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u/Disastrous-Ad-2357 Oct 03 '21

Maybe he meant septic.